Grand Champion Jersey hails from Connecticut

Grand Champion Jersey hails from Connecticut

Date:

Wed, 10/03/2012

A pair of four-year-old cows win Grand Champion and Reserve in International Jersey Show at World Dairy Expo.

by Chelsey Johnson, Hoard’s Dairyman Editorial Intern

A competitive and quality class from top to bottom is how lead judge Mark Rueth, Oxford, Wis., described the group of Jersey females contending for Grand Champion of the International Jersey Show on Wednesday. With the help of Associate Judge Cathy Yeoman, Dover, Okla., the pair deemed Arethusa Response Vivid-ET, owned by Arethusa Farm, Litchfield, Conn. the Grand Champion of the show. Arethusa Response Vivid-ET was also the first place cow in the Four-Year-Old Cow class and Champion Senior Female.

Meanwhile, Random Luck Ray Helen followed the Grand Champion cow all day as she earned Reserve Grand Champion, Reserve Senior Champion Female and second place in the Four-Year-Old Cow class. Hillacres Morrae Maryland, owned by Budjon Farms and Peter Vail, Lomira, Wis., was recognized as honorable mention.